Joyful Occasion Quotes & Sayings

It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy. — James Jean-Pierre

In the dying days of the Gzilt civilisation, before its long-prepared-for elevation to something better and the celebrations to mark this momentous but joyful occasion, one of its last surviving ships encountered an alien vessel whose sole task was to deliver a very special party-goer to the festivities. — Iain M. Banks

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager. — Dree Hemingway

Rejection is protection. — Florence Scovell Shinn

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up. — Roz Chast

We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely. — Aria Beth Sloss

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. — G.K. Chesterton

My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days. — Oscar Wilde

Always believe in your heart that you can do what you dream. — Debasish Mridha

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff. — Arthur Miller

Above all, discard the irrelevant. — Barbara Tuchman

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. — Bernard Baruch

God is saying today, that if you'll pray and ask for the impossible, He will do the impossible. — Jamie Larbi

God is the Father of lights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself. — Vladimir Guerrero

Life ... is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness. — Robert Scheid